Revolutionizing our agri•culture will revitalize communities, acreage, and markets across the Midwest.

We can cultivate a beautiful life, and we can double down on that vision.  Illinois farmland is best utilized when agronomy & ecology enable farmers and families to make healthy choices for our community.

We need to find a personal interest in soil health.

With there being so much farmland out here, it’s a mistake to ignore Agriculture— both 1) to remediate for a century that polluted the prairie and continues contaminating our waters, and 2) as a crucial part of the infrastructure package necessary to national security.

Let’s make a demonstrated effort to ensure energy autonomy, community resilience, and global security.  Employing regenerative agricultural methods increase yield through biodiversity— empowering smallholders and medium enterprises, by reinvigorating the soil food web.

It's past time to draw a new deal for the future of our farmland.

By turning initiatives into a movement— reducing chemical inputs, expanding conservation areas and restoring remnant prairie.

Farmland for the Future

My name is Roy Jones.  I am fighting for a deal that rehabilitates the land, and I am here because of a fierce belief in what we can achieve together.

I am working for a deal that rehabilitates the land— what we grow, and how we grow.
By turning ag initiatives into a movement; reducing chemical inputs, restoring the prairie, and seeding a more hospitable future. Prioritizing the living soil, and not treating it like dirt: these are the conditions of the deal.
We can reorganize into sustainable communities founded on regenerative principles. We cannot keep fighting for a system which won’t change the basic structures of domination and exploitation.
This is an opportunity to prioritize support for our communities’ existing non-profits and mutual-aid groups, to ensure we have the resources going forward as we are working to ensure real food security and housing equity, and access to services that assure quality of life.
Misinformation, fantasy, and conspiracy have run as a plague through parts of our towns.
Career politicians depend on a mixture of unengaged and overinformed. A recommitment to education backed by deep epistemology will be useful for life, and free us from the torment of reactionary clickbait.

Many of our neighbors have expressed disappointment in Party leadership. It’s time to show Republicans and Democrats that we won’t be accomplice to their incompetence. It’s time to be responsible, accountable, and engaged.
It’s time to expand and modernize the network of public transportation across our counties. Many of our neighbors don’t have the privilege of owning their own vehicle— and this significantly limits opportunity for employment, enjoyment, and the accessibility of our great communities.
Some bus-service already exists, and our counties deserve a fleet of zero-emission vehicles to serve the majority of us who commute out of our hometowns.
As stewards of this landscape, it is our duty to realize a spirited soil health movement. Our farmers deserve our support. That’s why I am prioritizing a deal that rehabilitates the land.
Fertilizer prices, grocery prices, gasoline prices. This isn’t coincidence.
We need to find a personal interest in soil health. We need to be supporting Illinois farmers and gardeners in building-out an ecological and sustainable agronomy— an agronomy which provides autonomy, and real security.
Reducing chemical inputs, restoring the prairie, promoting biodiversity: prioritizing the living soil. These are steps that we could have been making for decades. The benefits multi-species cover crops provide to our homeland and our families have been unrealized, to the detriment of our entire agri-culture.
Illinois has a responsibility to our future to enact a committed investment in regenerative agriculture, like expansion of state and regional Cover Crop and Weatherization Programs will prepare our settlements to become increasingly resilient to extreme weather conditions expected to increase in frequency and intensity
The transition to zero-emission was always necessary, but never has it been inevitable. Decades of criminal negligence by influencers and corporations have compromised national security by bailing-out an inefficient, superannuated grid system.
It is not enough to increase supply, to enable increasing demand-led growth. We must reconsider our consumption, reconsider demand and desire. while prioritizing conservation.
Our district can be like a garden, a garden that expands.
A strong first step towards autonomy is to produce a significant crop in each town, for itself. Let’s secure the funding, rezone some land, and sign up to feed ourselves.
Oil lobbyists and monied interests have interfered in high school science education for decades.
The problem is not political, it is epistemological. American High School has always been compromised. Who among us has continued any real scholarship since then? We act like we believe there was an era of strict agreement on necessary teachings of History, Science, Politics. No serious history was ever taught “across the board” to highschool and under.
Fuck phragmites. All my homies hate phragmites.
It feels like our way of life is under attack— but really, all people are saying is there are other ways to live.
Our liberty is not waterproofed by acts of exclusion and cruelty. Sometimes problems are both multifaceted and uncomfortable. Violence, hatred, and miscommunication are being reinforced in spite of the real desire Americans have to come to peace with the world. Anti-responsibility is not “freedom”, anti-intellectualism is not “fun”, interdependence is not “weakness”, and vulnerability is not “gay”.